PHOENIX — After three days of service wrapped up on Wednesday afternoon, St. Mary’s Food Bank supplied a record number of families food for the Thanksgiving holiday, the nonprofit announced.

Around 12:45 p.m. the last car left the distribution center in Phoenix with meal essentials — “a turkey, holiday food box and produce bag” — and 11,876 families were served at the food bank’s Phoenix and Surprise locations.

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Adding in the other centers’ haul across Arizona, St. Mary’s and its 2

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